Barbara Damasceno

Biography:

Barbara Damasceno studied Materials Engineering at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco in Brazil and graduated in 2019. Her Ph.D. research is ongoing in the Department of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology. She is developing her research in the group of Prof. Douglas Leite at the Plasmas and Processes Laboratory. She is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University under Prof. James Tour supervision. Her research consists in the development of a SAW biosensor composed by GaN-enhanced graphene to detect viruses.